Comments

Comment by Mzbehavin

Hi Iwas killing these to day and can confirm they now drop the Tiny emerald whelping pet :0 ,they are based in feralas right ont the border of desolace.. there is a large amount of the whelps based there and around the lake edge side to..i got mine on the fifth kill i think i was very lucky either way happy hunting pet lovers..

Comment by Hexius

Please post (if you are selling them) how much profit you made from the auction house as of patch 4.0.3.

Comment by kscott

Confirmed as well, It took me 2 days and more than 1k Noxious Whelps to get The (forgive me for not knowing how to link to the item), but yes I would say they're still 1 in 1k drop chance. Also the "Jademir Echospawn" Might drop this as well, but I didn't farm them, the only reason I say that is because they look like the other Dragonkin that dropped the Azure whelp for me. Happy hunting guys.

Comment by Capslockk

They respawning very fast, no waiting just pure grinding. Nice!

Comment by montii

I can honestly say I have committed a genocide among the Noxious Whelp community. Much weaker men would avoid putting this down in words, too afraid to see a verbal testament to their depravity before them: I have killed thousands. With a grimace did I accept the non-combat pet they gifted me. It hardly seems worth it now. I will treasure it, as well as loathe it, as it reminds me of the time spent exterminating a much less threatening villain than I.

Comment by Arakas

I have so far slaughtered 1103 Whelps. Still nothing. I am not leaving without a PET! Will post SS when I get one!

Finally! 1392 Kills, approx. 7 and a half hours of wholesale slaughter killing a Whelp roughly every 20 seconds (including transit times). I made roughly 15g between the strait silver and Dragon Femurs I'm going to sell. Also got the Beacon for that quest which is pretty cool. Around kill 450, I started loosing it, and added:

/salute %t/say To the victor goes the spoils!

to my primary attack macro :P

Here is the screen shot. The list of Greens I got from these buggers is quite long!

Hopefully you can see it in the photo... His name is Tiny Fang (for Obvious reasons!)

Comment by bevans89

Farmed for the whelpling in Feralas (northern most bit) and took me about 20 - 25 minutes :) Very easy as I am an 85 spriest so just went round killing, one every 7 secs I'd say. :)

GL!

Comment by Tenalady

Over 2500 kills now and no whelpling. Posting for luck.

*edit*

3245 kills, and it's finally mine!

Comment by illvibin

I was farming the Noxios Whelps for the past 8 hrs in hopes of my 4th Emerald to give to a friend, and what do you know drops while I'm trying to get it.... thats right. 0% drop rate on all npc it drops from. Time to keep going for the Emerald lewlz

Comment by illvibin

I was farming the Noxious Whelps for the past 8 hrs in hopes of my 4th Emerald to give to a friend, and what do you know drops while I'm trying to get it.... thats right. 0% drop rate on all npc it drops from. Time to keep going for the Emerald lewlz

Comment by illvibin

The chances of it dropping for you quickly are very slim. I have personally farmed 3 of the Emeralds getting 2 in 9-12 hrs and another in under 2 hrs. While going for my 4th last night, I got a lucky drop of the Sprite Darter Hatchling though which has a 0% drop rate off Noxious Whelps B)

*Edit* Just got my 4th Emerald Whelp ftw lewlz

Comment by Sylvandas

I like how the Tiny Emerald Whelpling isn't considered "Noteworthy", yet it's been the object of virtually every comment on this page.

Comment by Chk177

Hello fellow companion "hunters"!

I was once again motivated to acquire companions, when I saw they were going to add the new companion achievements in the next patch 4.1 - therefore I looked through my companions, checked which ones I needed and found out this was one of them. I got mine after 42 minutes of farming, in which I killed 149 whelps - elaborated below.I did not want to feel I completely wasted time so I went there with my level 40 elemental shaman and did the quest. No luck - but I decided to go back later and continue grinding as it did give some experience at least.I killed these from 00:02-00:27 (server time) so a total of 25 minutes spent, managing to kill 65, i.e. approximately 2,6 kills per minute. I considered it a little too slow and not rewarding enough so I decided to go with my level 85 protection warrior instead - also because he needed the OOX-22/FE in order to start working on his Mechanical Chicken, so I figured I could just as well try to kill two birds with one stone.This time I killed these from 19:16-19:33 so a total of 17 minutes spent, managing to kill 84, i.e. approximately 4,9 kills per minute - and on kill number 84, the whelpling was there! And OOX was even there on kill number 5 so that one should not be too difficult to acquire from these if you're planning to do the same thing as me.

So to sum up:

1st try (Elemental Shaman, level 40):

Time spent: 25 minutes

Kills: 65

Kills per minute: 2,6

Just running normally around, no mount, between the whelps so that's why it was not very efficient.

2nd try (Protection Warrior, level 85):

Time spent: 17 minutes

Kills: 84

Kills per minute: 4,9

Mounted up everytime I needed to get to another whelp and Heroic Leap/Charge wouldn't do, so close to the most efficient way of farming the whelps I'd say - no downtime, they had respawned when I had got all the way around the lake.

Put together:

Time spent: 42 minutes

Kills: 149

Kills per minute: 3,5

Your prospects:I know the chance of this dropping is completely random. As seen, somebody needs more than a 1000 kills while others get it on their second kill. But just to give an idea of how much time you might need to spend on getting this, here's a hypothesis:You're killng them at the same pace as my warrior, and you need to kill 1000 before the pet drops:1000/4,9 = 204 minutes = 3 hours and 24 minutes

If you consider that reasonable, then don't hesitate! In addition, if it seems like too much, consider the fact that it only took me 42 minutes to get it, even with slow killing with my shaman, others only 2 kills!And I can tell you, even if you're one of the people who needs to kill like 2000, don't worry too much, you get kind of hypnotized when you start on this farming, so it won't bother you too much.Also if it feels hopeless, let it rest for some time and return, or maybe do it 15 minutes a day and hope you're lucky!Hope I have motivated you, and good luck with your future "companion journey" :)

Comment by Midgetpower

Comment by Testrafane

Over 3,500 kills over a 3 week period, No Tiny Emerald Whelpling, No Sprite Darter Egg and No Distress Beacon....this is the worst luck I've ever had. So I can almost guarantee it will drop for anyone else in under 3,000 kills. Good luck!

Comment by darkangelpixie

HI HUNNIES!ok I am one of those not to lucky hunters of pets this makes pet #142 for try to go for the 150 ach

so it took me about two days and 12.5 hoursnow i have all the baby whelps I personally have been hunting this pet before wrath and have killed countless of whelps in SOS and never got it

OTHER than that happy hunting sugars and peace love and monkies from sageras :p

Comment by gricko

I've been farming for a few overs over 2-3 days. I picked these whelps because according to the loot list they drop both the sprite darter and the emerald whelp.

So far I've gotten 2 whelps and no darter. Can anyone confirm that the darter drops from them? Thanks

Comment by boonya

Don't be fooled by the high drop rate on the whelp. If you're expecting to receive it by 1100 like the drop rate is telling you, you're only setting yourself up for disapointment. If you've ever read a comment on a rare item from Wowhead, you'd know that half of the comments are either trolls, or someone that got very lucky

From my experience farming the Tiny Emerald whelpling:

50 kills: Wow, 50 is only 1/20 of the way there, and I've only been here for 10 minutes! Free 20k!

500 kills: My brain was melted and I had lost all hope, but I was mezmorized by all of the green.

1500 kills: I realized how bull &*!@ the drop rate was and did not expect to ever receive the pet.

2000 kills: What kept me going from here is the fact that I wasted 4 and a half hours of straight farming.

2500 kills: I had to go and eat food or I would have starved... and at this point I gave up.

The moral of the story is don't farm any of the whelps if the soul reason you're doing it is for the gold.

Comment by AznNoProblem

Farmed this in 28 kills in the noxious whelps in the northern part of the map.. made my day. Guess i'm lucky as hell today x_x black tabby in my tanking queue bag, disgusting oozeling in 30 mins, dark whelp in about 10 mins, this in no more than a couple kills... 104/150 pets :3

Comment by Wipebringer

What loot/kill counting addon is that in your screenshot?

Comment by Shadowaitor

Hi! After four, or five years short farming cicles.... today I killed Noxious whelps for six hours.

Now I know that the smell of Metaxa activating the Emerald in the Noxious, and he wana be yours...

Aitor - Ragnaros

Comment by ToriaURU

Have spent about 5 hours farming them steady - nobody else around, and still nothing. Almost zen like with the music and my rip and tear (on my druid). It will drop, I tell myself, it will drop, as I continue to loot away.

Update, day 2 - 6 hours yesterday, and 1 hour today spent. still nothing. I think it's a myth that a pet drops off these things

Comment by metalcherry

Running round Jademir Lake for the past couple of hours, its quite quiet, the occasional low level questers which i leave and go to the other end of the lake, trying to find the whelpling pet - so far killed in the region of 200-300 and nothing however did receive a OOX-22/FE Beacon. The search continues for my whelp.

Comment by fd1000

I know this is hard to believe, but I went out there to farm for the Emerald Whelpling, and it dropped after the first 10-15 kills. I guess if you play this game long enough, you will hit some good luck. I never have good luck, but I did today.

Comment by airlifter

I can Confirm, that these do Indeed drop Sprite Darter Egg I have spent aprox: 1 hr 30 mins clearing all the whelps in the area doing circular runs back and forth and got the this egg on my 6th run around the lake as a lvl 39 Mage. At first I got alittle carried away and thought this to be the Whelp, until I read the item... but ah well, keep on I must! atleast I have some cute company whilst I mindlessly grind. :) Happy looting everybody!

Comment by SaturnGrl

Counted a total of 32 Noxious Whelps that go around the lake.So it will be a trial to kill 1000+, but good on you for the dedication.

Got mine at 789 kills, just over 200 shy of the 1000 mark. Looks like luck was on my side. :)

Comment by Pasplan

Comment by Pasplan

back from lunch, started a second round of farming, 82 tiny fangs, few greys and green items and one blued...

finally whelpling dropped! Pet nr 147 !

Total farming since this morning: about 3,5 hours.

Comment by mcookrowe

So my decision to begin the nearly fruitless endeavor has lead me to a somewhat useful discovery.This little annoying whelp has produced over 10 stacks of medium and heavy leather with skinning which fetched a decent price in the AH and considering this little sucker sells for nearly 110K on Eonar it helps ease the pain quite a bit.

Comment by Lizzybeth

I almost had a heartattack. 20th kill in I got the pet. 20 kills later, I got the beacon. Going to bed early now to make sure I'm not dreaming this up!

Comment by Guy19

After a couple sweeps of the spawning area I worked out a very smooth system of rotating around the little island (they spawn all around the outside of it) with no down time, killing groups right after they spawn. I went clock-wise around the island, taking out the little clumps of Noxious Whelps in a snake like pattern (http://cdn1.droidmill.com/media/market-media/com.marsapp.android.snake_0.png), not re-stepping anywhere. I made sure to set my pet to passive, so that I wasn't kept from looting any of them. I got a Emerald Whelpling in < an hour it seemed, maybe a bit more, but after that I farmed for a couple hours and couldn't get a second. So I kept the little devil. <3 This was also a great source of Heavy & Medium Leather & Hide, as well as Green Whelp Scales (needed forFormula: Enchant Gloves - Skinning) - but these stack at 5. I even got a rare recipe / 2 to throw on the AH. Overall, I highly recommend farming this, because it is a beautiful pet and could fetch close to, if not exceeding 10,000 G on the AH. You'll get a feel of how to efficiently farm them and eventually one will drop. Only all the more if you're a Leather Worker. Hope I was some help, feel free to add to this. ;D

Comment by SORAKH2756

Comment by Acaulis

If you're going to farm these guys, if you can, do it on a Hunter who is also a skinner. With MoP on the horizon, leatherworkers will be busy making and selling leather items for Monks. Since you're going to be killing a lot of these little guys, make the most of it. Use your hunter's Track Dragonkin to move efficiently and Aspect of the Cheetah (you're going to one-shot them so no danger of being stunned) to move quickly. These whelps give you Heavy and Medium leather, hides, and also Green Whelp Scale (which is used in Enchanting for the +5 skinning to gloves - aren't you mad when you can't skin General Umbriss in Grim Batol!)

Comment by Neurolanis

Well, I listened to the comments warning against trying this but I decided to give it a shot and, believe it or not, after killing about 10 (yes, TEN) I got the drop! Pure luck or..? I wonder..call me crazy but it seems some items will drop for you more easily than others. I've gotten more than one rare drop of a kind before, and yet for others I never got it. I agree that you can't expact to get one of these drops, but hey, it's worth a shot if you got the time to kill. Worked for me. :)

Comment by westonjust

Mass data for those looking to see if odds are correct.kills:13,132loots: 13,132tiny emerald whelplings: 11Sprite darter eggs: 0distress beacons: 1

I am farming these mobs for the sprite darter egg, but have not been very lucky with it! total game time is 5 days, 2 hours, and 36 minutes farming the mobs. Good luck and happy farming, the whelps WILL drop, just sometimes they are spaced out on how they drop, sometimes you can get 2 in 300 kills or one in 2000 kills.

Comment by Foazia

After flying around and killing 230 Noxious Whelps, all I have found is -Vital Boots (of the Eagle)Marauder's Belt (of the Boar)Headhunter's Armor (of the Wolf)Sparkleshell Cloak (of Dodge)Tiny Fang(s)Dragon Femur(s)Stone Club(s)Interlaced PantsDouble Mail BootsDouble-Stitched Cloak

The reason my loot count is 225 and not 230 is because some Noxious Whelps got killed and landed at an awkward angle, making them impossible to loot (unless another Whelp is pulled close enough to AoE loot it)Still, an easy way to get the pet is to find it on the AH for a low price (yeah, right)!

Comment by koolkid222

I was farming mine for about an hour and a half, when it dropped I kinda flipped out and was telling my friend on skype. He didn't believe me so I tried to tab out and share screens, but my computer sucks so I got DC'd ( and I swear it said, "yay! You have found so and so in your bags) I come back after the DC and it's no where to be seen..... I got it an hour and a half after that. I feel very lucky because I could have two. ( I contacted a GM about the "first" one. ).

Comment by akilleuss

just south of dire maul there are a few Nether Fairie Dragon's that you can catch in a pet battle come under flying and look like welps secondary pets are rabbits frogs squirrels moths snakes aswell as this one which im going for now

Comment by keniourivze

Hi, a tip to help you farm this mob, who loot the Emerald Whelpling, create a macro with the following lines (taking my example for Death Knight, but put what you want instead of Howling Blast, as long as it is instant cast)

Comment by Ponde

A single drop of that stupid whelping pet costs 6000 gold on the AH.

I have killed hundreds of these awful flying asshats. Thousands. I am certain by the time one drops I could use the silver collected from all these kills to buy a SECOND whelpling pet. They drop about 2 silver each kill. I'm pretty sure I'm up to 20 gold.

Comment by nitai121

2 and half hours of working at it I got him :)

Comment by Smookly

Do not give up hope! I was just passing by feralas and i'm a bit of a pet collector, so i stopped and typed in my pet finder thing, Feralas. And i saw the emerald whelpling and thought, this is one cool pet, so i went to Wow Head and checked it out, i saw 0.09 drop chance and i was like, never gonna happen. But i tought if the Noxious Whelps were up i might aswell give it a try. So i went there and started killing my way through, i'm on Khadgar and there was no other farming them. So i jus went around killing them and on my 10th- 16th it dropped, i was so suprised my hearh skipped a beat, so if your out there farming all day long, im telling you it will come. Thx for reading, my first WoW H comment btw. See ya!

Comment by Axelblade

Ok. Emerald Whelpling, cool. But do these guys even drop the Green Whelp Scales anymore? I have several alts, and have noticed there are a few different recipes that have no longer farmable ingredients. For instance, Sharp Fangs have disappeared. If the ingredient no longer exists, why do we still have recipes for these items? Or better yet, bring back the ingredients!

Comment by Beowolfy

An efficient, if mind-numbing way to farm the noxious whelps is to begin at the village, Dreamer's Rest near the lake. Head around the lake from the village, counter-clockwise. Depending on whether others are farming, you should be able to get 25 plus whelps with a complete circuit. That give enough time for all of them to respawn before you make your next circuit. Village is handy for selling trash and/or mailing stuff, repairs, etc. If my math is even close, it will take you approximately 52 circuits to cull 1000 or so whelps, hoping the pet drops. If others are farming it will take quite a few more turns around the lake.

Four whelplings in 1000 kills is a 0.4% drop for my experience. I did this trial out of pure interest in the numbers. Some people will take a lot more kills to get one, some will get it on their first kill. But from this data I collected, chances of getting a whelpling are high, but keep in mind how long it took me to kill 1000 whelps.

I hope this is interesting or useful for any other fellow farmers. Happy hunting!

Comment by EmperorLuuk

Got the emerald Whelpling today, 1,5 clear of the entire bank. Used a hunter to track dragons to make it easier. Was done really fast, less than 5 minutes.

Comment by FlamingZebra63

So apparently i can get 2 nocturnal sash's within 200 kills.... but i cant get a whelpling in 500? don't ask how I'm getting more 0% drops than 0.09% ones....

Comment by Lodureu

I have found out, that this mob is excellent if you're after Tiny Fangs or Dragon Femurs. It just so happens, that I wanted 9000 Tiny Fangs and 1000 Dragon Femurs.

I'm glad that I managed to avoid Emerald Whelplings, which is practically a worthless, vendorable item, and has a higher drop rate on these than Ghostwalker Boots. I've had the same luck when farming cloth in Hillsbrad Foothills - I got near 100k kills and Cat Carrier (Black Tabby) didn't drop even once! Somehow it still showed up in my collections, and some of my gold mysteriously vanished.